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Date:      Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:34:01 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ACPI project progress report 
Message-ID:  <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:35:33 PDT." <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> 
References:  <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com>  

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In message <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes:
: Can we guarantee that we can find this area?  On eg. the Dell i7500 that 
: I've been playing most with, it's a file on a FAT filesystem, and the 
: BIOS will only "find" it if the filesystem is in the 'active' partition 
: at boot time.

Generally we cannot guarnatee that.  IIRC, there's lots of variation.
Usually it is just a partition, but sometimes it is the last N
cylenders of the disk, and sometimes it is a file like you say.  It
would at the very least need to be configured...

Warner


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